Top 500 Euripides Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes.”

— Euripides

452. “And women, though most helpless in doing good deeds, Are of every evil the cleverest of contrivers.”

— Euripides

453. “Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy.”

— Euripides

454. “We know the good, we apprehend it clearly; but we can’t bring it to achievement.”

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455. “When two souls compose a single song, The muse fans Livid wrath before long.”

— Euripides

456. “Time will bring healing.”

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457. “Time cancels young pain.”

— Euripides

458. “It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.”

— Euripides

459. “It is better to die on your feet than be called for offensive pass interference.”

— Euripides

460. “The little done doth vanish to the mind which forward sees how much remains to do.”

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461. “Speak wisdom to a fool and he’ll think you have no sense at all.”

— Euripides

462. “A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.”

— Euripides

463. “No one who lives in error is free.”

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464. “The childless escape much misery.”

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465. “Do not mistake for wisdom that opinion which may rise from a sick mind.”

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466. “There is no bitterness to be compared with that between two people who once loved.”

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467. “Youth holds no society with grief.”

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468. “The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.”

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469. “When roused to rage the maddening populace storms, their fury, like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable; but give its violence ways, it spends itself, and as its force abates, learns to obey and yields it to your will.”

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470. “It makes little difference to the dead, if they are buried in the tokens of luxury. It is but an empty glorification left for those who live.”

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471. “All men know their children mean more than life.”

— Euripides

472. “Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.”

— Euripides

473. “Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.”

— Euripides

474. “Bear witness for one who is loved and not loved: we cast the cloak gently around her, an end of great woe for our house.”

— Euripides

475. “Delight in splendor is no more than happiness with little for both and have their appeal.”

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476. “How sweet to remember the trouble that is past.”

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477. “Wine enlivens the human soul.”

— Euripides

478. “The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.”

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479. “Who cannot open an honest mind No friend will he be of mine.”

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480. “Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one’s neighbor, but still not happy.”

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481. “Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment.”

— Euripides

482. “This thy wit hath no wit.”

— Euripides

483. “I care for riches, to make gifts.”

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484. “The brave endure their labors, the cowardly are worth the cowards nothing at all.”

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485. “For the discreet among mortals are such as pass through life correctly with wisdom.”

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486. “How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.”

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487. “A free man? – There is no such thing! All men are slaves; some, slaves to money; some, of chance; others are forced, either by mass opinion, or threatening law, to act against their nature.”

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488. “Only one in command: that’s the way in the home And the way in the state when it must find Measures best for mankind.”

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489. “And ’tis a rare prize for a man to obtain such a wife, but there is no lack of getting a bad spouse.”

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490. “Ah! there is naught more serviceable to mankind than a prudent distrust.”

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491. “On, on! Run, dance, delirious, possessed!”

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492. “Apollo, your voice hymned a justice I could not see clear, but all too clear the anguish you caused, the bloodhaunted, homeless future you’ve doled out.”

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493. “Many matters the gods bring to surprising ends. The things we thought would happen do not happen; The unexpected God makes possible; And such is the conclusion of this story.”

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494. “Be happy, beloved face of my great friend. For us that is impossible, but you can be-we dead lack any source of delight.”

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495. “Bakkhai: Might be a good idea, if it’s not too much bother, to show more respect for your old grandfather. Not to mention the gods. Teiresias: You’re bold and loud and glib, Pentheus, you should have been a lawyer. But you totally lack common sense. This “new invented daimon” you laugh at – take my word for it – he’s not one to laugh at. He’s going to be big.”

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496. “Para mi quiero, antes que un rico, un Pobre que tenga un alma grande.”

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497. “So that many characters which passed as heroic, or at least presentable, in the kindly remoteness of legend, reveal some strange weakness when brought suddenly into the light. When the tradition is Satyric, as here, the same process produces almost an opposite effect. It is somewhat as though the main plot of a gross and jolly farce were pondered over and made more true to human character till it emerged as a refined and rather pathetic comedy.”

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498. “If any man thinks wealth or power of greater worth To him who has them, than a good friend- he is mad.”

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499. “ALCESTIS Translated by Theodore Alois Buckley.”

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500. “Wisdom lies in clarity.”

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